Sources

Everything I know I have learned from handling toys during more than a decade trading on ebay (under the moniker ‘hexeres‘), and from my research using books and websites written by others. The list below is a selection of the main sources I have used. I hope you find them useful, and if you know of an important resource that I have overlooked, please let me know. 

Unfortunately, websites have a tendency to disappear once their creators cease maintaining them. If this happens for any of the links I have included here, you may nevertheless be able to find an archived copy at the Internet Archive Way Back Machine (https://archive.org/web/)

Dinky Military

• Dinky Toys & Modelled Miniatures, Mike & Sue Richardson (3^rd Edition, New Cavendish 1993)
• Dinky Toys Collector’s Association: www.dtcawebsite.com
• Meccano Magazine: https://www.meccanoindex.co.uk

Minic Ships

• Tri-ang Minic Ships website: http://www.triangminicships.com
• ‘Dockside’ discussion board: www.members7.boardhost.com/Dockside/
• Miniature Ship Models, Paul Jacobs (Seaforth 2008)
• A Guide to Waterline Model Ships, Kelvin Holmes (Traplet 2010)

Britains Deetail

• Britains Toy Soldiers, James Opie (Pen & Sword 2016)
• Suspended Animation: An Unauthorised History of Herald & Britains Plastic Figures, Peter Cole (Plastic Warrior 2004)

Matchbox Aircraft Kits

• Matchbox Kits website: http://www.matchboxkits.org
• Scalemates website: http://www.scalemates.com
• 1973-2000, The Story of Matchbox Kits, J.C.Carbonel (Histoire & Collections 2012)

Solido Military

• Solido & Verem Military website: http://solijouet.free.fr/msv.htm

Dinky Aircraft

• Dinky Toys Aircraft 1934-1979, G.R.Webster (Blurb, v2.6, Winter 2011)
• Diecast Toy Aircraft, Sue Richardson (New Cavendish 1997)
• Dinky Toys & Modelled Miniatures, Mike & Sue Richardson (3^rd Edition, New Cavendish 1993)

Airfix Military Series

• Airfix enthusiast website: http://www.vintage-airfix.com
• Toy Soldier HQ website: http://www.angelfire.com/biz/toysoldierhq/Airfix.html
• Sixty Years of Airfix Models, Jeremy Brook (Crowood 2015)

Wiking Ships

• Wiking ships website (in German): http://www.wiking-schiffsmodelle.de
• Wiking-Modelle: Die Schiffe und Flugzeuge, Peter Schoenfeldt (Koehler 1998) (in German)
• Miniature Ship Models, Paul Jacobs (Seaforth 2008)

ESCI Figures

• Plastic Soldier Review website: http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/
• 1967-2000 The Story of ESCI Kits, Jean-Christophe Carbonel (Histoire & Collections 2013)

Matchbox Skybusters

• Suchoj Skybusters website: https://www.suchoj.com/SkyBusters/index.htm
• Diecast Toy Aircraft, Sue Richardson (New Cavendish 1997)

Skybirds

• Skybird Notes, A.G.Sinclair (1994)

Matchbox 1-75

• Little Wheels Museum website: www.chezbois.com/non_corgi/matchbox_lesney_1-75.htm
• Vintage British Diecasts website: www.vintagebritishdiecasts.co.uk/mbindex.htm
• The Encyclopaedia of Matchbox Toys 1947-2001 4^th Ed (revised), Charlie Mack (Schiffer 2013)